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Kinjiro Matsudaira
Personal details
Born1885 (1885)
Pennsylvania, United States
Died1963 (aged 77–78)
Children3
Parent(s)Matsudaira Tadaatsu
Carrie Sampson

Kinjiro Matsudaira (松平 欽次郎, Matsudaira Kinjirō, born 1885) was an American inventor and politician who served as the mayor of Edmonston, Maryland in 1927 and 1943.

Biography

Matsudaira was born in Pennsylvania on September 13, 1885, as the son of a Japanese father, Tadaatsu,[1] and an American mother, Carrie Sampson. He was a descendant of the Fujii-Matsudaira clan.[2] After his father's death, he lived with his maternal grandparents in Virginia. On May 1, 1912, Matsudaira filed for U.S. Patent 1,111,912 concerning the functions of a thermometric fire-detector.[3] The patent was granted to him on September 29, 1914.[4]

In 1925, Matsudaira sent a letter to the Embassy of Japan in Washington, D.C., asking whether he was related to Tsuneo Matsudaira, the Japanese Ambassador to the United States at the time.[5] He was elected as the mayor of Edmonston, Maryland, in the summer of 1927. Although the election was reportedly recalled due to the Immigration Act of 1924, which prohibited Japanese immigration to the United States,[6] the election reportedly made him the first Japanese American mayor in the United States.[7][8][9][10] Matsudaira was re-elected as mayor of Edmonston in 1943.[11][12]

References

  1. ^ Imada, Eiichi (2005). 日系アメリカ人と戦争: 六〇年後の真実: コロラド日本人物語 [Japanese-American War: The truth after sixty years: A Colorado Japanese Story] (in Japanese). Parade. p. 327.
  2. ^ Lee, Jonathan H. X.; Adachi, Dean Ryuta (2017-11-30). Japanese Americans: The History and Culture of a People. ABC-CLIO. p. xxix.
  3. ^ Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office. United States Patent Office. 1914. p. 1237.
  4. ^ Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents. United States Government Printing Office. 1915. p. 374.
  5. ^ Yasui, True (August 1988). "Mile-Hi Notes, Volume 4, Number 8". Auraria Library Digital Collections. Retrieved 2017-11-19.
  6. ^ McGill, Laurie W. (2013). A Capital Affair. Kansas City: United Federation of Doll Clubs. p. 58.
  7. ^ "Newsfaces". NewspaperArchive. The Anniston Star. 1927-09-06. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
  8. ^ ""East is East and West is West," But Edmonston's Mayor Is a Little of Each". Newspapers.com. The Culver Citizen. 1928-03-07. Retrieved 2017-11-19.
  9. ^ Yamaguchi, Yoji (1996). A Student's Guide to Japanese American Genealogy. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 50.
  10. ^ "Edmonston: A bridge to the future". The Washington Examiner. 2010-04-15. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
  11. ^ Breningstall, Jeremy (2000-01-28). "Taking history into the future". Gazette.net. Retrieved 2017-11-19.
  12. ^ "History". Town of Edmonston. Retrieved 2017-11-19.



Category:1885 births Category:1963 deaths Category:20th-century American politicians Category:American inventors Category:American mayors of Japanese descent Category:Asian-American people in Maryland politics Category:Fujii-Matsudaira clan Category:Maryland Democrats

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